IIRC, you are not on a Mac, are you Chipp? I got mouse-finger (have you tried drawing with one?!!) until I first moved to the Kensington four-button trackball, and, finally, to the current fingerless (ask my husband, as he really hasn't got any) Mac mouse. No more mouse-finger!
FOR people who were already familiar with the PC qua keyboard-centered DOS, the mouse-centric GUI was confusing, but if, as may well be likely, you've read the literature, this was a deliberate attempt to force focus onto the new GUI concept for THAT OTHER audience, namely, those who were not already familiar with using a computer, and mouse-centricity was central to the premise of Schneiderman's articulation of items of interest and manipulation paradigm. Which is why I find the whole 2 (and, by extension, 3) button mouse and especially contextual mousebutton stuff in which you right-click on nothing in the middle of nowhere stuff simply maddenning and a violation of the paradigm. But then, as you say, I guess it's all just what you become accustomed to. It's easy to be old and grouchy ;-) Judy On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Chipp Walters wrote: > My inclination is to agree with you, Dan, but I do remember the > absurdity of the mouse at it's inception, and how difficult it was to > 'get used to' by the mainstream. > > Here are a couple observations... > > - You don't get 'mouse finger' (I get it all the time). > - You probably get 'mouse wrist' if you used it often > - Strong learning curve for gestures > - Without gestures, you end up removing an existing dimension of > interfaces (the click). Think about how you would select text with > gestures...ouch! > - It seems to work better with 'dynamic' environments which change as > you navigate through them. Flash seems especially suited. But, as we all > know, changing app environments are particularly 'high' on the GUI > 'nono' list. > > -Chipp _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
